RCA students design phones that turn speech into physical sensations



Royal College of Art students Sandeep Hoonjan and Xianzhi Zhang have designed a pair of devices that allow people to physically experience conversations while apart during the coronavirus lockdown.

The project, called Feel the Conversation, comprises two handheld machines that connect to a phone and translate the user’s speech into a series of simple haptic patterns based on their intonation and volume.

Innovation design engineering students Hoonjan and Zhang created the devices to connect people who have been physically separated as a result of situations such as the coronavirus lockdown in a “more intimate” way.

Two attachments, a brush-style blue silicone feeler and a piece of silicone shaped like a tongue, produce different sensations.

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